light-adj
‘weightlessness’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. leight, lite, leyȝt, lighere, lyght, lyȝth, liȝght, lither, lygheter, lyþt, licht, leohne, lihht, lygth, leoht, læht < O.E. leoht (We.S.), leht (A.) ‘not heavy, light in weight; lightly constructed; easy to do, trifling; quick, agile’ < Proto-G. lingkhtaz < lai < legwh- < Tamil el